Academic Press: 465 books
Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 1
Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 1: Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvements is part of a two-volume compendium that addresses the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today.
Volume 1, on Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvement, outlines the contemporary trends...
Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2:
Food, Health, and Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2: Food, Health, and Nutrition addresses some of the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today. This volume, part of the two-volume compendium, focuses on research trends in sustainable horticulture that include postharvest management and processed...
New Poetics of Chekhov's Plays
Presence Through Absence
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
One century after the death of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), his plays are celebrated throughout the world as a major milestone in the history of theater and drama. Outside the Russian-speaking community, he is undoubtedly the most widely translated, studied, and performed of all Russian writers. His...
by Kristina Jennbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Exploring the relationship between animals and humans in Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the Viking Period, this book interprets Old Norse mythology-in which imaginary creatures with strong characters were invented-and examines the importance of animals in the human world. According to Old...
Rethinking the Space for Religion
New Actors in Central and Southeast Europe on Religion, Authenticity and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
A broad discussion about how history and religion contribute to identity politics in contemporary Europe, this book provides case studies exemplifying how public intellectuals and academics have taken an active part in the construction of recent and traditional pasts. Instead of repeating the simplistic...
Physiology of Molluscs
A Collection of Selected Reviews, Two-Volume Set
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews is an informative two-volume sent that brings together some of the most important recent and unique developments in molluscan physiology.
Volume One focuses on shell structure, mineralization, the dynamics of calcium transport, shell...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
With contributions from various experts, this is an interdisciplinary approach to the global phenomenon that is the Twilight series, which has evolved well beyond the novels by Stephenie Meyer. This anthology contains in-depth film analyses, gender perspectives, economic and literary studies of the...
Fish Histology
From Cells to Organs
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This new volume provides up-to-date information that emphasizes the relationships and concepts by which cell and tissue structures of fish are inextricably linked with their function. The book also describes the most recent development in the sciences of fish histology. Covers the normal histology...
Turning Points
An Extraordinary Journey into the Suicidal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this remarkable book, Professor Diego De Leo, distinguished Italian psychiatrist and world leading researcher into suicide prevention, takes us on a journey to the edge of reason and through into the light of salvation. We hear the voices of desperate traumatised people pushed to the limit of suicide...
Crop Breeding
Bioinformatics and Preparing for Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
Climate change will severely impact the world’s food supply unless steps are taken to increase crop resilience. Otherwise, the negative effects on both the yield and the quality of crop plants are predicted to be immense. Plant genomics...
Constructed Subsurface Wetlands
Case Study and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
With a sharp focus on environmental pollution and its impact on life and nature, scientists and engineers have studied the water treatment effect of natural wetlands for many years, resulting in the development of constructed wetlands (CWs) for treating wastewater. This informative new book provides...
The Chemical Century
Molecular Manipulation and Its Impact on the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This fascinating new volume provides a comprehensive yet concise overview of the chemical aspects of some of the major innovations and changes that occurred during the 20th century, relating chemical structures and properties to real-life applications. Developed for a course taught by the author for...
Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5
The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India is the fifth of a five-volume set on the ethnobotany of India. Bringing together in one place information on the ethnobotany of the Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India, this volume presents the valuable details of the ethnobotanical...
by Seifedine Kadry, Pauly Awad
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book is designed to be a vital companion to math textbooks covering the topics of precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and probability and statistics. While these existing textbooks focus mainly on solving mathematic problems using the old paper-and-pencil method, this...